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Java Scorched Earth Saved Australia

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Against fearful odds, the little Australian force, armed only with Bren guns and rifles, held on primly to gain time to allow the scorched earth policy to be applied in and around Batavia. Twice on March 3 they broke up solid

attacks by N February 28. HMS put ashore at Javu. There were 200 was the naval escort of this convoy well-equipped Japanese division. Exeter, HMS Encounter in our party. The remainder made which sank the Perth and Houston. They had only thr

three mortars, and Another invasion deet landed troops in two days of savago fighting ono and USS Pope headed for their way ashord themselves."

"I was in the water for 13 hours," nt Indramayu, 100 miles east of of these was buried and dug out six Sunda Strait. They were en ald Petty Officer C. B. Thomson. Batavia, and the eastern flock of times.

Air support stendily dimin gaged by a strong enemy force "Most of us were covered in oil, transports put troops ushere near shed as the Allied Air Force, and nothing further was heard When the sun rose this oil sizzled Rembang, 00 miles west of Sourn- bever very strong, was beaten down.

and baya of them.

HMAS Ferth, USS Houston and the Dutch destroyer Evertsen the next morning sought to run the blockade in Sunda Strait, Two Japanese cruisers pounced on the Everisen, set her on fire with shells and drove ver ashore,

From that moonlit troplen night of March, 1942, until October; 1944, no detalls of the gallant last fight of the Australian cruiser Perth Alter- ed through from any source.

Then four surviving members of her crew were rescued when a Japanese prisoner-of-war ship was torpedoed by an American submaring In October, 1944. They revealed that nearly half of the cruiser com plement of 878 had landed in Java after the sinking. In September, 1945, 153 additional inembers of the Perth crew were liberated from the prison camps in pouthern Honshu,

These men cleared away the shroud of mystery which for so long had muffled the fate of the cruiser. In Sunda Strait, the Perth ran into Japanese destroyer flotilla off the St Nicholas Point, on the

north coast of Java. In brilliant moonlight, cruiser, which was moving in

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with the USS Hoemy

on our skins, and our facen bodles were burnt badly and awell- Sixty thousand Japanese

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hours tund consolidated three bridge-

Enemy Hurled Back

DEPLOYED with skill on the banks

"The providential appearance of hends and had purhei inland thy an empty steel lifebont probably armed groups of 300 and 400 men, } with" judgment" by Brigadier Black-

This is the second and concluding instalment of an authentic account,

by HUGH BUGGY, of how the out- numbered and hard-pressed Allied forces made the Japs pay dearly, both at sea and on land, for their incursion into Indonesia in

POCKET CARTOON

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1847, by Ely Culbertson)

of a river near Bultenzorg and led burn. the Australians fought with dauntless courage: Again and again; they hurled back the attacking entry columns, and in two days killed 500 Japanese. Dutch war material was moved out of Batavia, while the little Land resolutely held the pass. Bombed and shelled in their hastily dug mun pite they covered the withdrawal of Dutch forces from Batayin and Buitenzorg, It រាជ

Most players know all about fore- another of those gallant but hopelessing bids, hat the forcing pass is still efforts like those at Rabaul, Timor a mystery to the great majority. and Ambon. With complete comTM

Observe to this typical case: mand of Sunda Straft and the Allied inval forces destroyed or scattered, the Japanese were able to reinforce al will, By March 5 their columus had swung round behind Botavia and the end

their invasion army 1942.

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It came from a same on bicycles,

in light Tactics of Malaya merchant ship, and was complete armoured cors. with sails. In this about 26 of us were duellented. Small parties with Then others powerful air support and light tanks the reached an island.

the territory, avoiding were washed up, until there were intrated

pitched battles, disregarding the high about 40 of us.

whys and

outflanking defending forces.

com-

herself encircled by troyers with several heavy and fight cruisers in the rear. This Japanese naval force at the time was convoy- ing troop transports for landings on the Java mainland.

Outnumbereil

reil and outgunned, the Perth and Houston were caught in a hurricane of shellfire. But the men of the Perth fought back doggedly, firing from the forward turrets.

Enemy gunfire came from several bearings, and Japanese destroyers passed so close that they could be engaged with machine-guns. Twenty dramatic minules passed before the Perth was hit. Then her alreraft, its catapult and crate were shot away and her starboard pom-pom Was shattered. None of the cruiser's guns was knocked out in these first licavy salvoes.

"We Were Helpless" WITH Japanese shells tearing her superstructure to pieces the Perth fought back. Her gunners for more than an hour in a combat as desperate and hopeless as that of Grenville's "Revenge" drove off the destroyers which began to close for "the kill."* At least two of them recalled to direct hits from the cruiser and The Perth gunners spouted flame. believed that they sank Inter. Torpe- also hit two

does from the Perth enemy transporta.

Although the 8-inch shells of the Japanese cruisers began to tear the Perth asunder in a flurry of smoke and flame, the gun crews kept fring

"The natives fled at first, but re- turned. Their chieftain ordered us of the Island, and demanded com- pensation for sheep, which we had hletes wide we ever te Ja natives handed us over to the Jops."

Fearful Odds

was near.

Describing the magnificent defen- sive struggle of the Australians, Brigadier Blackburn said: "For 72 hours this crack Japanese division hammered at us, and could not advance a yard. If they had passed

very large forces been cut off, harbour demolitions could not have been done, and big quantles of Dutch War material would have been lost.

would havo

"By simeer. stark bravery, our men hell them off. There never has been

finer body of men.

Dutch Command was unable to concentrate strong enough forces

When Batavia felt to the enemy to assault the bridgeheads on a large scale. In the Rembang sector, Gen- the Australians were withdrawn to ligen with a few battalions of the Bandoeng mountain defensive eral inst Infantry and marines found himself/ area. Against key points in this mountain line the Japanese massed Japanese quick opposed to two

heavy artillery and crushed them by Near Indramayu the enemy

On March 6 sheer weight of metal.

Four days after the last gallant fight of the Perth, the little stoop, HMAS Yarin, went down equally meritorious combat two Japanese 8-inch

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in the clusing hours of the Singa- pore drama, the Yarra had rescued loved local numerical superiority 1.804 men from the giant liner Em-and fauned out on to the plains of ey captured Kalidiati aerodrome, 40 miles from Bandoeng. This gave

The defence, at least, was good. Krawang

The Dutch commander, their bombers free range and they West opened his top diamond. press of Asia, which was set ablaze by

Hein Ter Poorten, had to try could choose their targets with im-dummy's ace was put up and the concentrated enemy air attack. On February 27, 1942, a convoy Dantam whose objectives were Ba- forces new suffered continuous un-

to hold two enemy spearheads from punity. Both Dutch and Australian spade jack was led through East. of six vessels escorted by the Yarra, tavia and Bandoeng.

That player went right in with on Australian mine-sweeper and n

Batavin was opposed air attack. By weight of the ace and shifted to the king and and the Japanese numbers, sloop

the Japanese over- seven of hearts, West won with the of the Royal Indian Navy left cavity bombed Batavia for Tillitjap. They beat of ept the defending troops on the came the defences of Bandocug and heart jack, cashed the are, and when declarer was shown to have started a submerine attack on the way, and move by persistent sweeps by low-scized the town.

flying embers and strañog fighters. as they approached Tiilitiap on

Organised resistance was continued with four bearts, led the beart nine. for t March 2 they were ordered to pro- On their way back from the Middle. By then the mountain position a desperate effort to shut out East, few days longer until March Declarer ruffed with dummy's ten' in ceed to Australia because of the East, a small force of Australians had become untenable owing to Incis but the latter, of course, could over- rapid advance of the enemy in Java. was diverted first to Sumatra and

of supplies and incessant hammering ruff with the spade queen Down At dawn on March 4 the convoy then to Java to support the Dutch from the alr

Small, was attacked by a force of three forces and small contingents of Bri- Dutch guerilla groups under General

well-trained two-but not doubled!. Japanese heavy cruisers und four fish and American troops.

East sheepishly pointed out that be Schilling and General Pesman con- destroyers. Three 4-inch guns of

had not thought much of his hand, inued to fight in the mountains. the Yarra and one 4-inch gun of one

with the queen of spades under the also took to the of the merchant ships were the sole

The Australians hills, but, lacking both food and spade bidder and with nothing in his armament with which the convoy

ammunition, many eventually were own bid suit, diamonds. This could oppose the enemy. The Yarra

forced to surrender.

very well--but Eant could have been put down a smokescreen and order-

great deal more consistent His

bid directly ed the convoy to scatter,

trump th's spade raise dist

not reflect dissatisfaction with his band, and once he made that call he had no right to "back out" when West passed the four-spade bid around to him in what was an obvious demand choice between doubling and going on, to five clubs. The situation Itself in the light of all the bids made by East and West, marked West's paša on the last round as forcing, and East certainly should have taken some constructive action, even it t was the wrong netion!

Gallant Yarra

This force

Helfrich Leaves

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was commanded by Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Black burn. V.C.. a first class soldier with record of distinction in two Work Wars. It consisted of three A.LF. battalions the 2/2nd Ploneer Bat- talion, a a Victorian unit, the 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, and a hot- talion built up from reinforcements ADMIRAL Helfrich left Java with and some A.I.F. men who had made days later luid down command of the his staff on March 1, and three while a gun would function or while AS such a world not power their cap from Singapost was Allied naval fares in the arca.

of fire the fight could not be bullnown as "Black" Force, and was squadron of ships had fought on to there was a shell to ram into a gun breech.

short-lived. Two of the enemy thrown into battle against the two

destruction. and only cruisers concentrated their fire on columns of the Japanese invaalon cruiser Tromp had survived. In the Finally,

the light we ran oul of nm- munition and were helpless to the convoy. The Yarra's guns kept army who from

their landing enable comradeship of

Nether battie, beat off a close-in attack," said one firing for 20 minutes till she was Bantam region were pressing towards lands warships with those of Britain, officer survivor. "The Jap destroy disabled by shellfire, but she did not Batavin.

Australia and the United States had ers steamed in and put four tor- sink unit two and a half hours after Defence of aerodromes in the been handled with boldness, bravery pedoes into us, hitting forward, amid- the action opened. The entire con-

of Batavis was the and skill unexcelled anywhere in the ships and aft. The hull was torn voy was destroyed.

neighbourhood official An

mony theatres of war. They had tsunder and the vessel went down Navy version declares that the lash allotted to the Australians, who taken woli of enemy shipping to an

numbered only 2,500. Of these men, Yarra put up a gallant ght com-

extent which seriously delayed hin "Those of us who had survived) parable with that of the HMS 500 had had training in Infantry plans for swift and complete conquest the inferno of the past hour came Jervi

equipment was con fighting, but their when she and her con

condeflelent.,

of New 'Gujren. The remaining thousand to the surface, piled on to rafts or voy

attacked by were

When the Japanese entered grabbed pieces of wood and floating battleship in the Atlantic in 1040 men were clerks, drivers and men Sourabaya on March 9, they found of a postal and pay corps and of a the naval base and harbour a tangle wreckage, and hoped for the best, The commanding officer uf the

mobile laundry unit. "Not for away was the Houston, Yarra, Lieutetant Commander R. W.

of smoking wreckage. Ships had vomiting smoke and flames. It was | Ranby, and all but thirteen members Using infiltration on a very large been sunit along the quays and in a most depressing sight and the red of the crew were lost.

scale, the Japanese circumvented the harbour entrance. Oli tanks harl glow

the sky lit up faces drawn Of the entire Allied Naval force Dutch coastal defences and moved een alight for a week and the fac- and haggard from the horrors of which fought the ill-starred, unequal rapidly towards the mountain defen- would have to be rebuilt Surabaya

fories and dockyards of the past hour.

Battle of the Java Sea, only four sive line prepared round Bandoenk ground and every piece of machinery After

n time the Houston dis-American destroyers managed to

to General Ter Poorten's advanced appeared in a huge cloud of steam maice their way to Australia after a troops were cut off us he suhted and equipment brought from Japan, and we were alone,

skirmish with Japanese destroyers draw back his forces in the face of significance for Australla. it meant All this destruction had a special "Fortunately the sea Was calm patrolling Ball Strait. Thus the determined onslaught by When we were able to take stock of Java Sea had come entirely under highly competent Japanese divisions. sources left, Java and the rest of the two that with hardly any industrial re- ourselves we found we had neither Japanese control,

By March 2 he realised that he could Dutch islands could not immediately food nor water. Twenty of us were On Sunday, March 1, the enemy nght only a delaying action to enable be employed by the Japanese as a crowded on the small raft on which invaded Java &t three points, Cross-destruction of cargo loading gear and base from which a large scale offen- I had managed to scramble.

ing Sunda Siralt from Sumatra, one other harbour installations in Bata- alve against Australia could be large foree landed at Bantam. It via..

mounted,

Inside 15 minutes.

11 Hours in Water

LTHOUGH there were many. Jup

A chips in the vicinity they picked

up only one man. The sea was dotted with survivors drifting helplessly,

By

German

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

Mrs Tufter writes: My husband relay. This is expected to take a as a ridiculous trick of trying to couple of weeks, without any brents, force the lobe of my car through the except for one hour each night. rings of a tennis racket, to amuse during which the commentator will guests. It is painful and humilia-explain what it is all about. Then ting. What should I do?

thers will be "Sordello," n ballet

"Taking it in turn, waddled EVER since I was knee-high |

to an adder I have longed frantically, hoping to make for an for Barrie's tree-snake to lay Island, but the current was strong that we drifted past it.

It has now laid fifteen eggs. "We were at the mercy of the at the Zoo, and they are in an breeze and currents until daylight. incubator, as the venomous

Dr Rhubarb says: Cut one or two adapted from Browning's poem of Then we were able to get our bear mother does not care to sit on of the strings, so that the lobe will that name; and a choral rendering of ings and endeavour to make for the them.

go through quite easily, and without 1,250 of the maxims of Confucius. thore. We could see the coast of

pain to you. If you still feel hum!- Java quite clearly, but we had little

flated, tie his shoe laces, when he is

Marvels of science hope of being able to make it, so the little beauties are hatched they seated next to him, or set fire to his But now comes the snag. When

not looking, to those of the lady "All was a scene of utter desola- not cruelty to animals then my name

will be fed on mice, and it that is trouser ends. tion as we began to drift down is Edgar Polkinghorne. It would More Fun

crucity to animals to deprive "About 8 ain, u Japanese des- the baby snakes of their food. So I troyer steamed in amongst us leave the dilemma to the RSPCA and took us aboard, where they Personally I would rather save the gave us such attention as could. The wounded received roughman who has never swatted a ty or they mice and let the snakes die. Let the first-nid -treatment. Later we were trodden a beetle to death adjudicate.

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